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Bradlee Sargent's Groups (9)
.Net Town
18 members Latest Activity: Apr 13, 2020 What's up with .Net in your neck of the woods? We'll discuss all the basics here. Eventually, we'l break out separate groups for C#, etc...
Community Corral
23 members Latest Activity: Aug 23, 2012 Are you interested in social networks? We're talking about virtual communities here. Community builders use tools and techniques. We'll discuss them…
Wikipedia Place
9 members Latest Activity: Oct 27, 2011 We've had a unique opportunity to speak with Brion Vibber recently at the October Orlandojug meeting. Let's discuss what we learned for those who…
Cloud Computing Village
16 members Latest Activity: Aug 21, 2015 Cloud Computing is "the next big thing". The recent JavaOne featured Cloud Computing more than any other technology. Come join us and explore /…
Startup City
24 members Latest Activity: Jun 10, 2016 Have you got a great idea you'd like to put into action? This is the place for you! We'll talk about ideas and how to turn them into businesses here.
Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC) JUG Town
8 members Latest Activity: Jun 5, 2014
Come join us here at the RDC JUG Town! Stanislas Matayo and the group in Kinshasa welcome you.
Computational Linguistics Village
15 members Latest Activity: May 6, 2018 Ever wonder how Google Translate works? It's computational linguistics! Join us here and learn all about it and more. Jim White will be our guide.…
Android Town
35 members Latest Activity: Jul 20, 2019 Android is an open Java-based platform to use for developing mobile apps. Do you believe mobile computing is the wave of the future? We do!
Happy 10th year, JCertif!
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Article: Engineering Speed at Scale — Architectural Lessons from Sub-100-ms APIs
Sub‑100-ms APIs emerge from disciplined architecture using latency budgets, minimized hops, async fan‑out, layered caching, circuit breakers, and strong observability. But long‑term speed depends on culture, with teams owning p99, monitoring drift, managing thread pools, and treating performance as a shared, continuous responsibility.
By Saranya VedagiriAWS Adds Intelligent-Tiering and Replication for S3 Tables
AWS has introduced Intelligent-Tiering and cross-region replication for S3 Tables to automate cost optimization and data availability for Apache Iceberg workloads. These features allow data to transition to lower-cost storage tiers based on access patterns while maintaining consistent, read-only table replicas across regions and accounts without manual synchronization.
By Steef-Jan WiggersGoogle’s Eight Essential Multi-Agent Design Patterns
Google recently published a guide outlining eight essential design patterns for multi-agent systems, ranging from sequential pipelines to human-in-the-loop architecture. The guide provides concrete explanations of each pattern along with sample code for Google's Agent Development Kit.
By Sergio De SimoneJava News Roundup: Spring Shell, JReleaser, TornadoInsight, Apache Camel
This week's relatively quiet Java roundup for December 29th, 2025, features news highlighting: the GA release of Spring Shell 4.0; point releases of JReleaser 1.22.0 and Apache Camel 4.14.3; and TornadoInsight now compatible with the recent release of TornadoVM 2.0.
By Michael RedlichDuckDB's WebAssembly Client Allows Querying Iceberg Datasets in the Browser
DuckDB has recently introduced end-to-end interaction with Iceberg REST Catalogs directly within a browser tab, requiring no infrastructure setup. The new feature leverages DuckDB-Wasm, a WebAssembly port of DuckDB that runs in the browser, allowing users to query, read, and write Iceberg tables in a serverless manner.
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